Australian researchers are growing skin equivalents that reduce the need for animal testing, as skin equivalents used overseas can't be imported.

Biotechnology could help to prevent deadly and costly diseases associeted with poor diet, believes David Topping.

Research has found that sea sponges are at risk from global warming, as their symbiotic relationship with microbes breaks down at 33 degrees Celsius.

Cave glow-worms use circadian rhythms to tell them when to turn their light on and off and, unlike glow worms living in the sun, they shine brightest during the day.

Research has found that beneficial bacteria, naturally found in wild rock lobster populations, can protect farmed lobsters from disease.

Sampling shark DNA usually means a struggle with a live shark, but a new method gets the DNA from teeth – which sharks drop a few times during their life.

A study has found that people travelling by car are ten times more likely to be seriously injured than people travelling by train, judging per kilometre travelled.

Female salmon choose the father of their offspring from afar, by releasing ovarian fluid that either helps or hinders sperm swiftness, research has found.

Scientists working near the South Pole have fitted elephant seals with sensors to get readings under the sea ice, with great success.

The claim that humans wiped out Australia's megafauana is flawed, according to research that has found people may have lived alongside the giant animals.

A new study has found that Tasmania's giant marsupials were still roaming when humans arrived, suggesting our ancestors played the major role in their extinction.

An international team has discovered a hormone that can stop shoot branching in plants, a finding that could greatly boost the agriculture industry's profits.

Australian researchers have sent native seeds into orbit to test their resilience in space and whether or not they could help colonise other planets one day.

Genetically engineered crops now being grown represent a massive uncontrolled experiment whose outcome is inherently unpredictable, argues Evaggelos Vallianatos.

The world's first bloom of biodiversity may have started with the cooling of Earth's oceans, according to research on the bones of extinct sea creatures.